plumbing

Definitions

nplumbingthe occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building)

nplumbingmeasuring the depths of the oceans

nplumbingutility consisting of the pipes and fixtures for the distribution of water or gas in a building and for the disposal of sewage

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Interesting fact:
In Maine, it is illegal to sell a car on Sunday unless it comes equipped with plumbing.

PlumbingThe art of casting and working in lead, and applying it to building purposes; especially, the business of furnishing, fitting, and repairing pipes for conducting water, sewage, etc.

PlumbingThe lead or iron pipes, and other apparatus, used in conveying water, sewage, etc., in a building.

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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Interesting fact:
Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the first American to have plumbing installed in his house, in 1840.

nplumbingThe art of casting and working in lead (also, by extension, in other metals put to similar uses), and applying it to various purposes connected with buildings, as in roofs, windows, pipes, etc.

nplumbingThe act or process of ascertaining the depth of anything.

nplumbingLead pipes and other apparatus used for conveying water or other liquids through a building.

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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

Interesting fact:
More than 400,000 U.S. houses still lack indoor plumbing.

nPlumbingthe art of casting and working in lead, &c

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Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

Fr. plomb—L. plumbum, lead.

Usage

In literature:

I'm plumb scairt to death till I get out of this here wolf's den.

"Steve Yeager" by William MacLeod Raine

She's plumb stuck on him.

"The Triumph of John Kars" by Ridgwell Cullum

She was plumb out of her head, and talked wild, but she handled her reins like a rider.

"The Quirt" by B.M. Bower

But I'm 'fraid they're jest plumb unlucky.

"The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle" by Laura Lee Hope

W'y, de day's bin w'en ol' man Tarr'pin wuz plumb harnsum.

"The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.)" by Various

Mebbe it wa'n't plumb hoss-sensible nohow.

"Gideon's Band" by George W. Cable

She's been plumb honest all along.

"The Sagebrusher" by Emerson Hough

Mama stayed there on the farm plumb till she come to town.

"Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves" by Work Projects Administration

My wife'll be plumb tickled to have yuh.

"North of Fifty-Three" by Bertrand W. Sinclair

Why, I'm plumb scared of a gun-totin' tenderfoot, myself.

"Overland Red" by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Nothing but making the whole thing plumb over will do any good.

"Dixie Hart" by Will N. Harben

We fought them all night, and if we'd let them go they'd been plumb into Colorado by this time.

"Ted Strong in Montana" by Edward C. Taylor

He was found plumb dead under a tree whar de lightnin' felled him.

"A Son of the Hills" by Harriet T. Comstock

I was riding a pacing mule and it was plumb gentle.

"Slave Narratives, Oklahoma" by Various

He'd have been plumb safe if he'd have forgot all about his gun.

"The Range Boss" by Charles Alden Seltzer

With open plumbing, and with the floors under the fixtures of nonabsorbent material, they are useless.

"The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)" by Various

Figures that made me gasp and sustain myself by the silver-mounted plumbing left her quite undisturbed.

"The Van Dwellers" by Albert Bigelow Paine

Mr. Sutton, he said such things as ha'nts an' witch-doctors an' such was all plumb foolishness.

"Heart of the Blue Ridge" by Waldron Baily

Then comes St. Lawrence Isle, plumb in the middle of the Strait, with Siberia an' Alaska closin' in.

"A Man to His Mate" by J. Allan Dunn

Wagon's kindlin', harness is plumb rotten.

"Rimrock Trail" by J. Allan Dunn

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In poetry:

There are Scores of fools among us -
Bring your scales and plumb and square.
Let them weigh and try each other -
For yourself judge which they are.

"Fools" by Joseph Warren Watson

'And hitherward I come,
Before this same old Time shall strike me numb,
To carry it out.' — 'Strange, this is!' said the other;
'What mind shall plumb

"The Obliterate Tomb" by Thomas Hardy

He says, "Ten dollars." I says, "I'm your man
The bronc never lived that I cannot fan
The bronc never tried nor never drew breath
That I cannot ride till he starves plumb to death."

"The Strawberry Roan" by Curley Fletcher

Well, we are wise. When life begins
To look so dour and dark
'Tis good to jettison our sins
And keep afloat the bark:
But don't let us claim lack of vice
For what's plumb cowardice!

"Cowardice" by Robert W Service

I buckled on my spurs, I was feeling plumb fine
I pulled down my hat and I curls up my twine
I threw the loop at him, right well I knew then
Before I had rode him I'd sure earn my ten.

"The Strawberry Roan" by Curley Fletcher

God gave you guts: don't let Him down;
Brace up, be worthy of His giving.
The road's a rut, the sky's a frown;
I know you're plumb fed up with living.
Fate birches you, and wry the rod . . .
Snap out, you fool! Don't let down God.

"Drifter" by Robert W Service

In news:

John Lithgow's 'Drama' plumbs the depths of the principled man behind the roles.

In science:

Technically, we describe the factorization of the Riemann surface with the plumbing ﬁxture method [310].

Topological Strings and Quantum Curves

The plumbing ﬁxture method works after choosing a puncture P on ΣL and P (cid:48) on ΣR .

Topological Strings and Quantum Curves

Once the light is injected into the single-mode (cid:12)bers, spatial (cid:12)ltering is an automatic consequence, and pupil remapping is trivially enabled by plumbing the output (cid:12)bers in a rearranged format to the input.

Photonic Technologies for a Pupil Remapping Interferometer

The plumbing parameter is given by q = e2π iτ, where τ is the complexiﬁed SU (2) coupling.

Thus the surgery processes allow us to ﬁll a gap in the discussion of §. 5.3 by showing that a Kronecker subquiver Kr may be identiﬁed with a plumbing tube, which may be taken to be tiny, thus setting the corresponding SU (2) coupling to small values where a Lagrangian description is meaningful.

In the plumbing constructions of Riemann surfaces we have to apply a recipe which is quite different from the one used in the DM-theory.

Applications of Polyfold Theory I: The Polyfolds of Gromov-Witten Theory

G obtained canonically by plumbing the surfaces ΩK, ΩL : corresponding discs K±i, L±i are identiﬁed with discs G±i by a homeomorphism which maintains disjointness of attaching arcs for ribbons, with arcs for r2 attached anticlockwise from those of r1 attached to G+i .

On the genus of infinite groups

The genus possibilities for the 2relator case, in turn created by plumbing 1-relator groups, each of which giving a lower bound for the genus.

On the genus of infinite groups

Recall that a positive stabilization of (B, π) is an open book decomposition corresponding to a ﬁbered link obtained by plumbing a positive Hopf band to B .

On the equivalence of Legendrian and transverse invariants in knot Floer homology

The plumbing connections to the heat exchanger are also shown, and will be discussed further in Section 4.

However it should be clear to the reader that the stochastic nature of high energy processes and the exact analogies to well plumbed models in statistical physics is an exciting direction for research in high energy QCD.

The Color Glass Condensate: A summary of key ideas and recent developments